So often, our goal in life is to maintain balance, yet figuring out how to maintain that balance is often a difficult task.

I want to propose that the secret lies in nature, through the law of three.

By understanding the law of three — the idea that every whole phenomenon is composed of three separate sources, which are active, passive, and neutral — we can live in greater harmony with ourselves and everything around us.

One of the most useful depictions of the law of three is the three gunas. Guna is a sanskrit, or ancient Indian language, term. In this case, the term guna can be taken to mean ‘quality, peculiarity, attribute, or property.’

These three gunas are called 'tamas,' ‘sattva,’ and 'rajas.’ They represent the character of everyone and everything.

Here’s a list of other words that associate with each of the three gunas: